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The Waldheim Dragoons: a refit

Click thumbnail to enlarge - All photos by John Treadaway

Details I left a couple of the M2A2s missile boxes as just plain green (no camo) figuring they were field replacements (no decals to be applied to them either.. but that’s later on). I hand painted a few skirt panels in metals by brush (a gun metal with some shining silver by Army painter over the top) figuring - again - that these would be recent, field appled, replacements after damage. I painted some sensor domes and other details liekthe fronts of the missiles in the boxes, using mostly Army Painter paints. I then painted, a commander for the hatch of the Daedalus which was just a regular figure from the spares box which I bisected with a pair of cutters. Then I added some scratches and rust to the skirts and gave the whole of the vehicles a wash with some Army Painter Strong acrylic wash using a large, plat brush. The original models (some of which I was retaining) had been dipped in Army Painter Strong Dip and I wanted to reproduce a similar effect without the varnish (and smell). I also find that the Army Painter dip doesn’t react well with some of my spray varnish when used on big flat surfaces (ie vehicles): it can ‘craze’. So I now avoid it on vehicles. When that was all dry, I dipped them in a light black ink and Future (floor wax) solution. And when I say dipped I mean that: the fluid decanted into a big plastic cup, latex gloves donned and then the models dunked and then set aside to dry propped off of the surface so that they don’t stick to it.